I'm thinking of writing many perl scripts in the future, so I really need a good perl editor. Can anyone tell me (if money were no object) which is best for offline development of perl scripts for the web?

I always like to upload my file.cgi / file.pl to my server and online edit it and start creating there, If I develope it on my win32 pat here at home, I'll just use WordPad because I haven't found an editor as good as the online one I use for offline use.

It's called Best FTP Explorer 2000 4th edition, just go to tucows.com and search for best ftp, you'll see it, it's very good, aside from a few minor things, I can hardly ever download over 400 files consecutively.

I use 1st Page 2000, which is comparable to HomeSite. You can grab it for free at http://www.evrsoft.com. The other editor I use, which is actually better for dealing with perlscripts (because the parser is more complex, therefore it colorizing text better) is CodeMagic Universal IDE. It cost around $130 US. Check it out at http://www.codemagiccd.com.